beautiful biography of a beautiful man
Michael Peppiatt’s biography about the truly enigmatic artist, Francis Bacon is poetic and spellniding. It was very difficult to put this down, something I rarely feel about a biography. My sweet dove, Don bought this book for me when I first moved to Chicago. This was a merciful grace to read when I was feeling displaced and freakish in a new city searching for my new comforts in my new corner of the world.
Peppiatt knew Francis Bacon quite well and the intimacy of knowing the inner workings of his subject is evident in every word of this book. This is not a dredgery of facts, but a refreshing emotive journey with Peppiatt, strolling through the life of one of the most significant painters of the 20th century, Francis Bacon.
The book is also true to its title … since Bacon is an absolute and true enigma, Peppiatt is not fearful to the reader of being confounded by this Modern genius, but instead gives us all enough to pick our own noodles and our own hearts regarding the moving and wrenching beauty of Bacon himself and his work.
This is THE Francis Bacon biography.
Pictured above is Francis Bacon and Michael Peppiatt
